Redland City mayor Karen Williams is ‘fuming’, following the release of the 2018 federal budget regarding land wanted for a future university campus.
Williams and senior council staff travelled to Canberra in late March to lobby Communications Minister Mitch Fifield to buy the land for education and community purposes.
Budget documents show the 80-hectare site at Birkdale, east of Brisbane, could “support up to 400 homes and will increase the supply of land for housing in metropolitan Brisbane”.